NIC names

[me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)]

I don't know how to do it on solaris, but on linux, check /etc/modules.conf
| /etc/modprobe.conf | or something similar depending on your distro (sorry,
I don't use either of two you mention).  There should be a line like:
  alias eth0 <DriverName>

You should be able to just change the "eth0" to whatever you want.  Of
course, you'll have to update the rest of the network config scripts to
reflect the new name (or just re-run the network config utility for your
distro).

If changing the "eth0" part isn't what you're talking about, then I don't
have any ideas.

HTH,
Matt

Rusty wrote:
> I don't have that command on any of my machines, I have systems running
> gentoo, solaris 10, and suse.  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Ritter [mailto:dsr at tao.merseine.nu] 
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 11:46 PM
> To: Rusty
> Cc: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: NIC names
> 
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 11:24:24PM -0500, Rusty wrote:
>> I am working on two systems that I want to configure with Veritas Cluster
>> Server/Manager.  However after installing everything it does not recognize
>> both machines as being part of the cluster, this is because on the second
>> machine the name of the nic is different than the name of the nic on the
>> first machine.  I called Symantec and they said that, I am right and they
>> have to have the same name.  Is there a way to change the name of the card
>> without changing the drivers?
> 
> ifrename
> 
> -dsr-
> 


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